Smyrna Christmas Parade and Smyrna Fire Department Shatter Records in Annual Food Drives
The Town of Smyrna collected 82,384 non-perishable items in the annual Christmas Parade Food Drive to benefit Nourish Food Bank. Mayor Mary Esther Reed and volunteer parade organizer, Jill Strange, knew that the need for donations to the Smyrna-LaVergne Food Bank (now Nourish Food Bank) increased during the Holiday Season. While planning the 2015 parade,…